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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom."

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Bono Musician, Activist
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"Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency."

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Brad Williams Comedian
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"People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement."

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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it."

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Alvin Martin Footballer
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"Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce."

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Anne Bronte Author
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"No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly."

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Antony Jay Author
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"There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life."

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